From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #739 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, August 1 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 739 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Sweet Bird and Aging and whatever else ["David J. Phillips" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:30:40 -0400 From: "David J. Phillips" Subject: Re: Sweet Bird and Aging and whatever else The line that keeps coming to me is "all these vain promises on beauty jars." I'm sixty now, and youth, just plain old youth, has never been so attractive to me. It takes my breath away to see a man in his twenties, or thirties. And I look at myself here - unguents and personal trainers and facials. (There's a New Yorker cartoon of three gay men of a certain age. One is saying "It's not the senior moments that get to me, It's the Death in Venice moments.") And honestly, my life at sixty is about the best it has ever been. But on bad days I look at calendars circled with compromise, or missed opportunities, or just plain erroneous (though well-considered) decisions. Ah well. I smile at the sweet bird, up on its feathers laughing. djp On 31/07/15 11:3705, Susan E. McNamara wrote: > I hear you Rob. I have 12 years on you, and it's really been hitting > home. Yesterday I had to buy two pairs of eye glasses to cover four > levels of seeing - reading/computer and reading/driving ... not only > did I wake up vanishing but my retirement nest egg is vanishing too > ... ch-ching. Plus someone is going to reach planet earth in the > next calendar year who will eventually start calling me the G-word. > Actually, can't wait for that one!!! > > -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org > [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rob Procyk Sent: Friday, > July 31, 2015 3:32 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Sweet Bird and Aging > and whatever else > > I'm reading posts completely out of order due to my wonky email and > our temperamental Smoe, so I am sorry if this is part of a "me too" > chorus. My dear friend Mark, "Sweet Bird" has become so special to me > the past few years. Indeed, it may almost be my fave Joni song now, > just for the line you mentioned. Lately, the dragging my feet to slow > the circles down thing is so very real. I mean, I've always felt the > sadness of aging as the years have gone by, but right now, it's all > too real. When I think back to how quickly the past 25 years have > gone, I'm rattled. I've always looked young and acted younger. Now > I'm 45, and while I may not look it, I finally feel it. My standing > joke has been "I can't be in my 40s - I still eat candy and watch > Scooby Doo reruns!" But it's true - I'm not 6 anymore. I've been > married 17 years, I've been orphaned by both parents during the last > 7 years, I've had 4 kids and have become the father to teenagers, > I've fallen into a complex job... My ma! ntras are a mixture of the > Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime"and FM's "Landslide" and "Sweet > Bird" and "Nothing Can Be Done." I'm not really liking this stage - I > know it's just holding pattern until the next age shift brings about > a whole new set of intricate issues. However, all that being said, I > choose to cling to the idea that happiness is the best facelift. So > while I come to terms with the fact that it will never be 1979 again > and I'll never be listening to Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" through > big-ass headphones in our rumpus room, I'm still comforted that I'm > not the only one who has realized that they have woke up vanishing. > And, sometimes, we all have to get out of our heads, so I'm sending > awesome vibes for all y'all who get to go to SC Jonifest. TGIF, Rob > > Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 22:52:51 -0400 From: Jimmy Stewart Subject: Re: Sweet Bird and Aging and whatever else The sweet bird of youth has been great to me mentally. I've never been happier with the good changes that have happened with civil rights this year, but that crow has been testing me this year physically. Most of it has been minor. February, I tore a bicep muscle ... Weeks of therapy helped that out. A piece of glass lodged in my finger required surgery in March fixed that ($ 14,000) for 1 hour. Met my $2000 deductible. Two root canals in April, which we all experience, but my first. Flying colors with my physical in April :-). May, I started experiencing upper abdominal pains. My doctor thought it might be due to stress at work, and all the Motrin I was taking. The pain didn't go away. Went to a G.I doctor. I've had 3 blood tests, an ultra sound, a cat scan, an upper endoscopy, and yesterday an MRI. I had my gall bladder and appendix removed back in 2002. Every test has come back normal. Hoping it was a lodged gall stone that could be removed. No such luck. They don't know what it is. The pancreas and liver are fine and no cancer. I see the GI doctor next week, after the dentist for a crown, and the ear doctor , ,,,, too aging children come PS. Sorry Steve birthday Dulson sweet man. I know you hate when we post an entire digest, but my computer is down. Xo Jimmy ....gesendet von meinem iPhone > On Jul 31, 2015, at 2:07 PM, "Susan E. McNamara" wrote: > > That's great David ... I too feel the happiest and most liberated in my life at this age. I just do what I want when I want to (to a certain extent!) ... but there's the duality again ... particles of change, I know, I know! > > -----Original Message----- > From: David J. Phillips [mailto:djp@davidjphillips.org] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 1:31 PM > To: Susan E. McNamara > Cc: Rob Procyk ; joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Sweet Bird and Aging and whatever else > > The line that keeps coming to me is "all these vain promises on beauty jars." I'm sixty now, and youth, just plain old youth, has never been so attractive to me. It takes my breath away to see a man in his twenties, or thirties. And I look at myself here - unguents and personal trainers and facials. (There's a New Yorker cartoon of three gay men of a certain age. One is saying "It's not the senior moments that get to me, It's the Death in Venice moments.") > > And honestly, my life at sixty is about the best it has ever been. But on bad days I look at calendars circled with compromise, or missed opportunities, or just plain erroneous (though well-considered) decisions. > > Ah well. I smile at the sweet bird, up on its feathers laughing. > > djp > >> On 31/07/15 11:3705, Susan E. McNamara wrote: >> I hear you Rob. I have 12 years on you, and it's really been hitting >> home. Yesterday I had to buy two pairs of eye glasses to cover four >> levels of seeing - reading/computer and reading/driving ... not only >> did I wake up vanishing but my retirement nest egg is vanishing too >> ... ch-ching. Plus someone is going to reach planet earth in the next >> calendar year who will eventually start calling me the G-word. >> Actually, can't wait for that one!!! >> >> -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org >> [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rob Procyk Sent: Friday, >> July 31, 2015 3:32 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Sweet Bird and Aging >> and whatever else >> >> I'm reading posts completely out of order due to my wonky email and >> our temperamental Smoe, so I am sorry if this is part of a "me too" >> chorus. My dear friend Mark, "Sweet Bird" has become so special to me >> the past few years. Indeed, it may almost be my fave Joni song now, >> just for the line you mentioned. Lately, the dragging my feet to slow >> the circles down thing is so very real. I mean, I've always felt the >> sadness of aging as the years have gone by, but right now, it's all >> too real. When I think back to how quickly the past 25 years have >> gone, I'm rattled. I've always looked young and acted younger. Now I'm >> 45, and while I may not look it, I finally feel it. My standing joke >> has been "I can't be in my 40s - I still eat candy and watch Scooby >> Doo reruns!" But it's true - I'm not 6 anymore. I've been married 17 >> years, I've been orphaned by both parents during the last >> 7 years, I've had 4 kids and have become the father to teenagers, >> I've fallen into a complex job... My ma! ntras are a mixture of the >> Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime"and FM's "Landslide" and "Sweet >> Bird" and "Nothing Can Be Done." I'm not really liking this stage - I >> know it's just holding pattern until the next age shift brings about a >> whole new set of intricate issues. However, all that being said, I >> choose to cling to the idea that happiness is the best facelift. So >> while I come to terms with the fact that it will never be 1979 again >> and I'll never be listening to Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" through >> big-ass headphones in our rumpus room, I'm still comforted that I'm >> not the only one who has realized that they have woke up vanishing. >> And, sometimes, we all have to get out of our heads, so I'm sending >> awesome vibes for all y'all who get to go to SC Jonifest. TGIF, Rob >> >> Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #739 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe